2008年11月26日 星期三

Chinese Democracy 中國民主

中國有民主?
民主的前提不是「自我統治」和「人民以和平手段達成集體決定以解決政治問題」嗎?那中國何來民主之有?
In the dictionary definition, democracy "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system."

In the phrase of Abraham Lincoln, democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Then, Democracy in China?
Apparently, Not So Fast.

這當然不是一篇多偉大,多了不起,談論民主怎樣怎樣的文章,我要提的只是Guns N Roses的新曲Chinese Democracy而已。以上。
"Chinese Democracy" from Guns N Roses, just take a look.



It don't really matter
Gonna find out for yourself
No it don't really matter
You're gonna leave this thing to
Somebody else

If they were missionaries
Real time visionaries
Sitting in a Chinese stew
To view my dis-infatu-ation
I know that I'm a classic case
Watch my disenchanted face
Blame it on the Falun Gong*
They've seen the end and you can't hold on now

Cause it would take a lot more hate than you
To win the fascination
Even with an iron fist
All they got to rule the nation
But all I got is precious time

It don't really matter
You're gonna find out for yourself
No it don't really matter
So you can hear now from
Somebody else

Cause it would take a lot more time than you
I've got more masturbation
Even with your iron fist
All they got to rule the nation but all I got is
Precious time
All they got to rule the nation but all I got is
Precious time

It don't really matter
I guess you'll find out for yourself
No it don't really matter
So you can hear it now from
Somebody else

You think you got it all locked up inside
And if you beat them all up they'll die
Then you'll walk them home for the cells
Then now you'll dig for your road back to hell
And with your ? makes you stop
As if your eyes were their eyes you can tell
And you're out of time



*Falun Gong(法輪功)is a spiritual practice founded in China by Li Hongzhi(李洪志)in 1992.It has five sets of meditation exercises and seeks to develop practitioners' hearts and character according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, articulated in the main books Falun Gongand and Zhuan Falun.

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